PROTEST IN NIJ OVER CHANGE IN TIMETABLE

 

Dr. Jide Johnson

 

                                                                                  Deputy Provost NIJ

By: AYELEKE OLADUNNI

The Post Graduate Diploma Students of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Ogba Lagos, on Tuesday protested against the school management over the sudden change of their examination timetable.

The examination which commenced on Monday 11th of June went without hitches until when Wednesday 13th of June when the management came up with another timetable having effected some changes. According to the previous timetable schedule, students were expected to have ‘Online Journalism examination’ on Monday but because of the recent declaration of a public holiday by the federal government , the paper scheduled on Monday was brought back to the 14th of June 2018.

It was a sad note for the students of NIJ on hearing this, couple with the fact that the news of the change on their time was brought an hour to the commencement of the day’s paper.

 As the students could not hold this, they matched in mass to the office of the deputy Provost of the institution Dr Jide Johnson, According to him, he said the timetable was prepared following the schools calendar, they are not aware that public holiday will fall on the said date, but not until when the federal government made the declaration on Tuesday. He apologized to the protesting students to accept the change that there is nothing the management can do.

The students of the Institution said that the change was too sudden they have been writing exams since Monday they should understand the fact that we are part time students many of us are working, we need enough time to prepare for this examination more over moreover the notice is too short. The management should do something.

The deputy provost of the institution reported that the change on the timetable was not an attempt to cause threat to the students' as claimed by some, but was as a result of the two day declaration by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

He called for an emergency meeting with the students in the hall, observed the timetable with them, then resolved to have the examination fixed for the 22nd of June, 2018.